International Workshop on Automatic Software Optimisation

We are happy to announce that the fifth edition of the international Genetic Improvement Workshop will take place next year with the annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019, Prague, 13-17 July this year.

Important Dates

Workshop submission deadline: April 3, 2019

Decision notification: April 17, 2019

Camera-ready submission: April 24, 2019

Call For Papers

We invite submissions that discuss recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Genetic Improvement. GI one of two key workshops in the field and provides an opportunity for researchers interested in automated program repair and software optimisation to disseminate their work, exchange ideas and discover new research directions.

Topics of interest include both the theory and practice of Genetic Improvement. Applications include, but are not limited to, using GI to:

repair bugs

improve code efficiency

decrease memory consumption

decrease energy consumption

explore tradeoffs between non-functional properties

transplant new functionality

optimise software parameters

improve practice (e.g., deployments, case studies, etc.)

inform language or tool design

...and also any works in the greater field of search-based software engineering in general

Research, Tool & Position Papers

We invite submissions of three types of paper:

Research papers: up to 8 pages long

Tool demo papers: up to 4 pages long

Position papers: up to 2 pages long

We encourage authors to submit early and in-progress work. The workshop emphasises interaction and discussion.

All accepted papers will be presented at GI@GECCO-2019 and will be published by the ACM. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop (authors of multiple GI@GECCO-2019 papers need only register once).

The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Library. Based on our experience, this is close to the first day of GECCO itself. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Workshop Paper Submission

Workshop papers must be submitted using the GECCO submission system this year. After login, you need to select the “Workshop Paper” submission form. In the form, you must select our workshop.

All accepted papers will be presented at the corresponding workshop and appear in the GECCO Conference Companion Proceedings.

Workshop Format

This year's workshop will consist of two parts the first being the presentation of accepted papers. The second part will be a chaired of a discussion centred around key themes of recent work and identified challenges. The goal will be to help inform some directions for future work in the GI community.